Today’s Water Cooler: Festival of Biden, Buttigieg, Sanders app, the Indivisibe pledge, CAP, employment, manufacturing, housing, construction, credit card debt, House Rules Committee #MedicareForAll hearing, data as blood, water, snow, drought, Uber strike, athletes and testosterone
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Wednesday, May 1, 2019
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/1/2019
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 60 Comments »
Apple to California Legislators: Consumers Will Hurt Themselves if Provided a Right to Repair
Apple and tech lobbyists delay a California bill to provide a statewide right to repair until 2020, claiming consumers will hurt themselves if the state capitulates on this issue. They also successfully deploy the hackers in the basement boogeyman.
Topics: Banana republic, Environment, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams, Technology and innovation
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 9:55 am | 32 Comments »
Links 5/1/19
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 6:55 am | 168 Comments »
Plastic Watch: Debunking the Technofix Fairy, Biodegradable Bags Don’t Degrade
‘Biodegradable ‘ plastic bags were still intact and capable of carrying shopping three years after being exposed to the natural environment: some arguments and evidence not to rely on the technofix fairy to solve the plastics crisis.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Guest Post, Technology and innovation, UK
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 6:50 am | 30 Comments »
We Live in a World With Very Rich Multinational Mining Companies, and Very Poor Miners
The Porgera Joint Venture – a gold mining operation in Paupa New Guinea, sucks gold out of a mountaintop, providing little benefit to miners or the people who live near the mine. Activist groups, and a lawsuit recently filed in Australia, seek to change that, as well as correct horrific human rights abuses.
Topics: Australia, China, Commodities, Guest Post, Income disparity
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 5:25 am | 6 Comments »
Bill Black: If Current Laws Prosecuting Bankers Aren’t Used, What Can Warren Change?
Bill Black demolishes the notion that we can’t prosecute banksters with laws now in place. He there’s no need to pass new laws – as Senator Elizabeth Warren proposes – but instead to appoint regulators and legal officers who’ll use what we know about dealing with criminogenic environments to prosecute white collar criminals. And to provide them with support and resources.
Topics: Banana republic, Banking industry, Doomsday scenarios, Free markets and their discontents, Legal, Politics, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 3:55 am | 13 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/30/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: China trade deal and enforcement, Biden, Buttigieg, Gravel, O’Rourke, Sanders, Warren, AM radio, manufacturing, employment cost, housing, Alden Capital, Boeing, Tesla, permafrost, health insurance, the Battle of Winterfell, the codex vs. the scroll
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 224 Comments »
How Far Can We Push Fiscal Spending in Light of MMT? Some Optimistic Reflections on the Potential For Economic Experimentation
Estimating where MMT’s inflation constraint on fiscal spending kicks in.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Macroeconomic policy, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 35 Comments »
Links 4/30/19
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 212 Comments »
The Tragedy of the Electric Commons: How New York’s Renewable Energy Policy Failed, and What We Can Do Now
Why renewable energy has gone nowhere in New York state….the fear that it would produce a death spiral for utilities.
Topics: Energy markets, Environment, Free markets and their discontents, Global warming, Guest Post, Politics, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:41 am | 22 Comments »
Buttigieg’s Small Donor Surge: Less There Than Meets the Eye?
A first look at the data about Buttigieg’s donors raises some uncomfortable questions.
Topics: Banana republic, Dubious statistics, Income disparity, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:09 am | 61 Comments »
What the April 15 Emerson Democratic Primary Poll Says About Emerson and Sanders
It’s 2016 all over again, as the press and analysts go to unusual lengths to ignore Sanders’ gains.
Topics: Banana republic, Dubious statistics, Guest Post, Media watch, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:03 am | 46 Comments »
Hope You Can Make One of Our Meetups This Week! Milwaukee This Wed May 1, Minneapolis Thurs May 2
Reinders and details for this week’s meetups! Hope you can stop by!
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 11:25 pm | 2 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/29/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Festival of Biden, Buttigieg, Gravel, Hickenlooper, Moulton, O’Rourke, Sanders, Trump, Warren, Weld, the Clintons, redistricting, white nationalism, factory farms, personal income, manufacturing, UK fracking, ocean plastic, thunderstorms, reforestation, PFAS, Stanford University Press, adjuncts, Zuckerberg, computers and kids
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 155 Comments »
Boeing Kept Mum to Customers, FAA About Disabling of 737 Max Warning System
Even more bad facts about the Boeing 737 Max are coming out.
Topics: Banana republic, Free markets and their discontents, Regulations and regulators, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 74 Comments »